So Long, See You Tomorrow

Bombay Bicycle Club

Amoeba Review

02/03/2014

English indie-poppers Bombay Bicycle Club return with album four, having settled into a kind of sensitive but upbeat, occasionally-danceable, sample-textured take on Vampire Weekend's jittery pace-keeping filtered through the Arcade Fire's aspirational build-up-choralisms, and occasionally laced with traces of Blood Orange carried on the back of a distant synthesizer. Frontman Jack Steadman handles production duties this time around, proving his aptitude behind the boards as much as in front of them. Decidedly English, the studied experimentalism on this record is airy and appealing, low pressure but rewarding deep listens.